LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TREGANTLE BEACH | 21 JUNE

A woman who’d collapsed while walking up the cliff from Tregantle Beach in Cornwall was given emergency first aid by RNLI lifeguards. They moved the woman out of the...

St Marylebone branch raised S.280 with a most enjoyable 'Any Questions ?' evening at Seymour Hall last November. The distinguished panellists were (I. to r.) Raymond Baxter, Mrs Mattie Pritchard, Brian Johnston, Dr Richard Gordon and... - View image in PDF

Coverack, Cornwall. On the morn- ing of the 5th of August, 1959, a doctor told the honorary secretary that he had learnt from the police that a man was lying injured on the rocks at Lankiddin Cove. The doctor asked for the assis- tance of...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 11.50 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1950, the coastguard passed on a message from Woolwich asking for help for a naval cutter four miles to the north- east of the Shipwash lightvessel. At five minutes past...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.32 on the morning of the 8th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Flevo of Groningen had run aground near Laver Point east of St. Ives Bay. The life- boat Edgar,...

Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1957, the coxswain of the life-boat reported that a small yacht was burning flares off North Rock. At 4.15 the life-boat Constance Calverley was...

The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The Institution...

Takings up at Downside's souvenir shop For several years the boys at Downside Lodge, Purley, have supported Purley's Lifeboat Week. They buy from the souvenir shop set up in the school hall each day and this year the gross takings at... - View image in PDF